The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-06-11
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

ing TO high water. Mullen tunnel caVeo
in on the Northern Pacific. The Utah,
Northern and Oregon Short Line bridge
was washed out.
DUMoNT, the lieutenant Of Riel in the
Northwest rebellion, is at the head OF the
present uprising in Manitoba.
REvILLo HOWARD, aged fifty-hve, we'll
known Jamaica (Vt) farmer, having sent
his wife on an errand on the I'd, loaded
his rifle, and on her return discharged II
at her, the ball passing through her head.
The cause of the shooting is attributed by
the neighbors to insanity. Mrs. Howard,
it is thought, is fatally wounded
CHARLES b. PARCELLs, manager OF the
Halls Safe and Lock Company at San
Francisco for nearly twenty five years, Is
said to be defaulter for $4,000 He had a
large salary and considerable real estate
and lived in fine style. He was proml-
nent member of the church, PARCELS has
decided $4,000 worth of property to avoid
prosecution. 1t IS said that he was ruined
by mining speculation.
WORK was begun on the 3d at KEEL
Germany, on the new Baltic canal
THE June festival of the Illinois Phil
harmonic Society closed at Bloomington
on the night of the 81.
ROBERT g. HALL shot and killed Mrs.
Lillian Rivers at Philadelphia on the Sd,
and then tried to kill himself with .
razor.
Mrs. CIGNARALI, the New York muir
deress, was sentenced to death on the 81,
her execution beng set for July %.
HENRY S. Ives, of Cincinnati, confirms
t..l ~, g l,1f
Its general offices are to be removed to
Cincinnati.
PosT-oFFIoE robberies in Barcelona,
Spain, have been discovered A number
of guilty employees have been arrested.
THERE is to be a lull in the Jake Sharp
trial at New York while charges of at
tempted tamperlng with the jury are
being inves tigated.
JOHN |. OLIVER, whom the President re-
moved from the position Of justice of the
peace in the District of Columbia, refuses
TO vacate, and will make legal fight for
the place.
PROF. VIM H. WooLLEY,of Bethany Col
lege, has been elected president of Hiram
College at Hiram, o.
Morris MARKS, who killed his boarding
lAlto u ODD AlllllV MN WUShlY III 4NtW i VI II,
by throwing vitrol over her, was SEN
fenced on the Sd to State prison for twenty
Years-the highest penalty his
conviction Of manslaughter in the FIRST
degree. f..
THREE powder mills at Frederi cksvark
Denmark, thirtyrmiles from Copenhagen,
exploded on the Sd. Fire broke out i'm.
mediately and caused much damage. No
loss of life occurred.
A PENSION was issued on the 31th to Jo-
seph Dingman, Of Butler, Mo-, late private
in Company /, Thirty-fourth Iowa In fan-
try, for total blindness, payable at the
Topeka agency. The first payment under
this pension amounts to $l2,4
A DISPATCH from Binhdinh, Anam, saws
the mandarins and 10000 natives have
submitted to the French resident, pledg-
ing allegiance by kissing the earth, &C.
cording to the native custom.
A SCHEME to make the Pope king of Pal
estine is reported from Vienna.
TIM BRADY a Lacrosse (Wis,) gam bier
was shot and killed on the evening of the
Sd by Policeman G. w. Reyes. Brady had
been drunk all dav, and Keyes Alleges
he drew knife on him without provoca.
ton.
The three Pinkerton men, Patrick
Sheehy, Morlarty and Samuel A. Neff,
who were tried in the Court of Session
at Jersey City, N, j., for killing the
twelve-year-old boy, Thomas Hogan, OF
January 20 last were acquitted on the 81
The jury was out only half an hour.
Rev. SUPPLY CHASE died on the night o.
the ID at Detroit, Mich, from a stroke Of
paralysis. He was born in Vernon
eighty-seven years ago; resided for time
in New York; in 1868 he went to Michigan
as one of the first Baptist home mission
aries, and has since preached at various
points in the State.
The Union Pacific investigation ha
closed for the present and the commission
has adjourned until October.
Mr.. PARNELL has assumed the activ,
leadership of his party in the British
Parliament again.
The National militia encampment a
Washington fell short of paying expenses
S37, 500.
THE will of the late Justice W. d. Woods
Of the Supreme Court of the United States
was filed in the probate court at Wash
ington on the Sd, proven by Assstan
AttOrney-General Maurey and Solicitor
General Phillips. 1t bears date of Apr
| % last.
AT the Kings County On. " Court o
Sessions on the 81, Townsend and Au
gustus johnson, the men who set fire t
Palmer's cooperage in Williamsburg Of
April 2, and again on May %, were sen
fenced by Judge Moore to the full pen
atty Of the law-fourteen years each.
Hon. JAMES NJ. SPEED, Attorney-Ger
eral during a portion of Abraham Lin
coins administration as President is r.
ported dying at his home in Kentucky.
Ex-Governor Moses of South Caroline
convicted of forgery, has been pardone
from the Massachusetts penitentiary o
account of i'll health.
BY an explosion in a stone quarry O
Birmingham, Pa, on the 4th, seven me
were instantly killed and Il number NOR
were fatally and otherwise injured.
THE labors of the Afghan frontier con
mission have closed, having signally faile
to accomplish the object for VIII CHI 1t wa
formed.
FLORIDA has appealed to the Gener;
Government to give such aid as is ALLOW
able under the law in preventing tt
spread of yellow fever
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